Recently installed ChaletOS 16.04.2 onto an old Sony Vaio VGN-FZ31E laptop. On which the Ricoh (r5u870) webcam was not working. But managed to find the following solution which may work on multiple other Sony laptop models.

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________The only good thing about Windows is that it never gives you any terminal illnesses.Needless to say, Terminal illnesses are the only problem with Linux.